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> I don't need to pay Specialized again every year just to keep using them.

The difference is that Specialized doesn't maintain or repair your bike and they certainly don't add new features/components to it over time. Those are services Autodesk is expected to provide.

> I had tried it a while back stopped because anytime you go into or out of video streaming it would black out the whole screen for a second or two before starting to buffer the content. It’s particularly annoying if trying to search for a particular episode of something.

That‘s the correct behavior though and not specific to the Apple TV. Any device that actually does switch and match the content’s frame rate will cause the output display to resync/adjust with a short black screen. The alternative of not adjusting frame rate is much worse and it’s such an underrated problem in video playback in my opinion. The Apple TV handles this better than most devices.

I can‘t understand why it wouldn’t default to match the content’s frame rate. How can anyone watch content with a frame rate that doesn‘t match (or is a multiple of) the source material? Maybe modern TVs can hide those issues with interpolation, but I wonder how this isn’t a bigger and more widely discussed topic. It‘s my understanding that the Apple TV even handles this better than other devices, which sometimes simply don‘t seem to bother to offer this option at all.

> My iPhone 5 became slower after 1-2 years. If the battery was bad, I never noticed it (no shutdowns or anything like that).

So...it worked as expected? Slightly slowing the phone down is exactly what prevented your phone from potentially and unexpectedly shutting down.

It‘s not. Instead it‘s the only reasonable way to deal with degrading batteries - a limitation all manufacturers have to deal with. Apple opted to prevent unexpected shutdowns by slightly throttling performance - the correct decision for most users, but they didn‘t tell the user about it, which of course serves as a great excuse for colorful, exaggerated headlines like the one in your linked article.

Just to clarify: Of course a 65W CPU will still consume more power due to bursts and boosts but as far as I know AMD has a hard limit of about 90W for their 65W-rated CPUs, which is reassuring. I‘m glad I opted for the 3700X during my last upgrade - very efficient CPU indeed.

Particularly for electronics or expensive items I'd always prefer a shop specialized in the product category in question. Here in germany there's almost always a better, often cheaper alternative to Amazon when it comes to specific product categories.

While perfectly fair, it would still lead to unhappy customers, which aren't exactly known to be receptive to reason.

While I may not always agree with Apple's approach I can understand their reasoning and don't believe that it simply comes down to earning a few extra bucks with the 30% cut in question and all the seemingly drastic measures that come with it.

> I'm using Windows, OS X and Linux for 30+ years, didn't have a virus or a malware or anything else.

Sure, neither did I, but Apple also has to provide a secure platform to my dad, my grandparents or any other non-tech-savvy person that will wreak havoc on any fresh Windows installation in record time.

They don't even need a paywall. If they don't want to be listed on Google they can always use robots.txt.

We've been through this in Germany. Publishers demanded to be paid for Google usage of results and news snippets. Google thankfully didn't give in to such a ridiculous demand and gave publishers the option to de-index them or keep listing them for free. Obviously all of them opted for the latter.

A few brief points:

I also grew up during Napster & Co., but it's really not that hard to recognize that albums exist and aren't really tied to a specific medium. You can buy them as digital downloads, on CD or vinyl.

As someone who loves albums and regards EPs let alone singles as a lesser, rushed and not particularly worthwhile format, let me assure you that you don't have to pay for things you don't want. The trick is to buy strong albums that avoid filler content and don't need to rely on a single hit. I admit that it takes effort to find the gems in a sea of mediocrity, but in absolute numbers there are more great albums than ever in addition to the ones you might have missed in the past. I'd say anyone claiming that there isn't any fantastic, album-worthy music isn't looking hard enough.

This should give some perspective: https://www.vulture.com/2012/09/grizzly-bear-shields.html - you'd think that the members of a band like Grizzly Bear, while not outright rich, should be able to live comfortable without too many financial struggles. You'd be wrong.

And that was 2012 - I'm sure things haven't improved since then.

> Bandcamp takes only a 15% cut, which is better than Spotify's 30%, but the way people talk about it you would think there's a 10x difference or something.

It's not about the relative cut of the services, but the absolute value of the payouts. On one platform you earn fractions of a cent per stream while the other allows you to collect whatever price you set for your release directly. I'm sure the latter approach is significantly better for smaller, niche artists, if not all but the most popular ones.

Or put differently: The number of plays on Spotify required to match the payout of a handful of album sales on Bandcamp is probably out of reach for most artists.

I have been saying this again and again, but not every artists is a rock band. There are countless releases that are best enjoyed in a home-listening environment and attract a mature audience that couldn't care less about t-shirts and merch. Thankfully the album still seems to be the primary product in those circles, but obviously even those artists will be affected by the expectation of having their discography available on Spotify.

> Maybe they can work for a living.

> Not playing the song one time and then trying to sell copies of it.

As in writing a few lines of code and selling copies of it? What a condescending and out of touch take on the issue. Those albums and songs aren't made of thin air - it's actual work that goes into them.

I think that only applies to very few labels. Bandcamp isn't some kind of exclusively niche underground store. These days all kinds of big, critically acclaimed labels and artists sell through them.

I absolutely hate this development. Admittedly within the genres and niches I listen to the album and the music itself is still the product, but I worry that this will change.

Concerning the single format: Going through and listening to my Bandcamp new release notifications is a weekly habit I enjoy. There are a lot of of those notifications and I gladly take the time to check them out, but I won't even listen to single track releases. I'm an album person. If an artist doesn't have enough quality material to compile an actual cohesive selection of his work and rather rushes from short-lived single to single, I'm not interested.

I'm even less interested in t-shirts, merchandise and live shows, though I get the appeal of the latter.

I don't think that's a solution. While I really, really like Shopify as an ecommerce platform its usage alone tells you nothing about the legitimacy of the seller. Indexing all products on a certain platform just seems like another marketplace to me.

The crucial point is that such a grocery trip basically requires a car. Meanwhile the rest of the world is used to having businesses within walkable reach.

Much simpler solution as suggested by other commenters: Simply get into the habit of riding a quick 30 minute loop on the bike before working at home. Biking or running just for the sake of exercise is a completely normal thing to do and I don't see why it has to be justified by a specific purpose like commuting.

> The whole account/subscription tacked on for no apparent reason thing is highly irritating, and Garmin is actually better than most.

I agree that the Garmin’s app/services should be more useful without an internet connection, but I think it’s fair to say that these days customers want and expect an ecosystem that syncs their data and ties in Garmin’s devices. I wouldn’t call such an essential feature tacked on.

Same here. These days Amazon has been demoted as my store for everyday items I don't really care about. I enjoy the free next day delivery and the fact that I don't need to register at another shop, but for items I care about (in my case it's often bike gear, audio equipment, clothing, hardware) I will always prefer the countless shops specialized in that particular product category.

In Germany they're mostly just as quick to deliver and sane return policies are required by federal/european law. And most importantly their inventory is way better - organized, curated, categorized and genuine.

Same here. I order quite frequently from Rapha and Wiggle and hope they'll have EU-based fulfilling in place.

Yes. Of course the same applies not just to resellers, but also to companies properly located in the UK. I order quite frequently from Rapha and Wiggle and hope they'll have EU-based fulfilling in place.

Do you really think that sane health care, a problem the rest of the world has figured out long ago, is nothing more than a scheme to serve corporate interests? Or on the same level as intentionally going to war based on misleading, if not downright incorrect, justifications. I can't believe what I'm reading here.

> I don't think any of the top 1% of front end engineers I know would be able to use CSS grid without looking at the documentation.

You probably don't mean it that way, but not having to use the documentation surely isn't a requirement for competency. I resort to the docs all the time, even with topics I'm quite famialiar and experienced with.

I'd always prefer the honest path. You could try to explain the problem and why it might seem easier than it is in simplified terms.

Also, fast and slow, hard and easy - those terms don't always correlate. Easy tasks can require a lot of time while hard problems might result in a quick solution after careful consideration. Furthermore getting hard tasks done quickly might be exactly why you're billing that much. Maybe you've dealt with a similar problem before - in that case your experience and competence in that particular subject shouldn't devalue your work.

What I'm trying to say is: Don't base your price on time spent alone.

Why not simply explain that LOC is not a good performance measure?

That's probably the episode they're talking about but it doesn't render their complaint less valid. It just shows the limits of streaming technology in its current form.

Minor clarification: GPS is always included. Only cellular is optional. I know what you mean, but your wording makes it sound as if GPS was a paid feature.

While I haven't used Hey yet, I find Notion on iOS to feel very sluggish and out of place compared to native apps. That's not a benchmark at all in my opinion.